Typesetting machine



A. H. NARROW.

TYPESETTING MACHlNE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.2, 1921.

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ANTON H. NARROW, 0F MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

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' Application filed DecemberQ, '1921. Serial No. 519,440.

the proper len th of the type bars is-indi can be cut OH to the de-.

cated so that t ey sired length without measuring each bar individually and cutting each one separately as is customary. In ordinary practice the bars as cast are of greater length than neces-' sary and must be out down to the proper length. This is particularly true of display type in advertisements where the lines hegin. and end at varying distances from the margin so as to fit about a cut, or for other reasons. This is usually done by means of a rotary saw the bars being cut ofi separately.

at the right-hand end of the bar, (or the left end of the line) and the length of the bars being determined individuall by measuring from the right-hand end. cludes a gauge which can be set so as to cut the bars ofi at the required length and particularly in case of display type the gauge must be set again and again, sometimes as often as there are type bars, because of the varying length of the lines. By my invention this work is done away with and any convenient number of bars can be positioned on the table of the saw at one time and brought to proper cutting position readily and quickly and the projecting ends (or slugs) cut 0E by a single relative movement of the saw and the table.

In ordinary practice also when the makeup is being put into the form if any blank.

spaces are to remain. at the left end of the line blanks or quads must be put-in when making up the form if the bars have been sawed off too short to provide such a space.v

By my invention every bar is sawed on at uch a saw in-' exactly the right length and no quads are necessary.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

gigure 1 is a face view of my invention, an

Figure 2 a horizontal section.

' In the drawings 10 indicates the righthand visejaw of a lintoype machine and '11 a left-hand vise jaw. A row of matrices 12 is shown in position between the vise jaws ready forcasting a line of type. According to my invention a hole is formed at 13 in the left-hand vise jaw into which the type metal flows when the bar is cast, the jaw thus acting as a combined jaw and matrix. The jaw 11 is movable as usual according to the length of the line of type and if the first letter is to be spaced further from the margin than in the ordinary line, as is common in display printing, a series of blank matrices may be inserted next the jaw. In this way the dot or projection formed at 13 will be equally far from the end of each line of ty e to be set up in the form. The hole shou d be deep enough to provide a measure finding dot of a height that willpermit ready application .to a straight edge of some convenient type on the cutting-oh machine, i. e., it should ordinarily be deep enough to produce a dot higher than the characters on the printing surface, and the operator will take up any convenient number of type bars, in his hands, even them up with their measure finding dots against a straight edge, run the saw across them and saw them all ed at one time. The position of the dot is such that print 'a period or other formation according to its shape. The hole may be drilled, cast or otherwlse produced in the vise jaw.

No experience will be required in sawing of? the bars since the measure finding dot, if properly located by the type setter, neces sarily gives a line of precisely correct length.

The type bar produced, is shown in my application No. 519,441 of even date'herewith.

' It Will be noted, that the preferred form of ti'on of the ultimate position of the left end of the type bar, substantially'as set forth.

2. In a linotype machine, means for casting type bars and means for forming on each type bar an indication of the desired position of the end of theline, substantially as set forth.

3. In a linotype machine, means for casting type bars and means for forming on each type bar an indication of the desired length of the bar, substantially as set forth. 4. In a linotype machiney means for eastnaesasi ing type bars and means for forming on each type bar an upvvard'projection at a distance fromthe end of the line of printing characters and of greaterheight than such characters, substantially as set forth.

"5. In a linotype machine a solid vise jaw having a hole in its lateral face spaced from the end face thereof, substantially as v set forth. i

6. In a typographical machine, means fo casting type bars with a slug adapted to be cut ed; and means for forming on each-type bar a measure finding indication showing Where the cutting operation is to be performed, substantially as set forth.

In vWitness yvhereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Memphis, Iennessee, this 23rd day of November, A D.-nineteen hundred and twenty-one. v

ANTON II. NARROW. [n s Witnesses:

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F. M. BAILEY. 

